Emersonian 2013: Scavenger Hunt

It’s been ages since I’ve posted any pictures of Emerson, so here are a few from a recent outing. Emerson and I decided to go for a walk at the Battlefield, and Kim had the clever idea of turning it into a scavenger hunt!

Here’s the (completed) list of items we had to find.

Most of them we checked off before we even left the parking lot at the Battlefield:

Rock

Green Leaf

Yellow Flower

White Flower

Twig

Water

Pine Tree

Pine Cone (it’s prickly)

Grass

Log

Sweetgum Ball

Then we actually went on our hike for awhile.

…before we started finding things again.

It’s hard to see, but this is an old hulled-out, half-eaten acorn.

Here’s a nymph of some kind, which counts as a bug for us. We saw a moth and ants and lots of mosquitoes, too, but this was the best picture we got.

This is kind of cheating. It was an overcast, rainy day, so while we heard birds everywhere, we didn’t see a single one until we were in the car on the way home. But we did notice this eagle at the very top of the monument. That counts, right?

And here’s a bonus picture of Emerson getting ready for his favorite movie recently: